There is no tracking information for the current branch

Question

I\'ve been using github from a relatively short period, and I\'ve always used the client to perform commits and pulls. I decided to try it from the git bash yesterday, and I

Answer 1

With Git 2.24, you won't have to do

git branch --set-upstream-to=origin/master master
git pull

You will be able to do:

git pull --set-upstream-to=origin/master master

See more at "default remote and branch using -u option - works with push but not pull".

Answer 2

git branch --set-upstream-to=origin/main

Answer 3

$ git branch --set-upstream-to=heroku/master master and

$ git pull

worked for me!

Answer 4

ComputerDruid's answer is great but I don't think it's necessary to set upstream manually unless you want to. I'm adding this answer because people might think that that's a necessary step.

This error will be gone if you specify the remote that you want to pull like below:

git pull origin master

Note that origin is the name of the remote and master is the branch name.

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1) How to check remote's name

git remote -v

2) How to see what branches available in the repository.

git branch -r

Answer 5

1) git branch --set-upstream-to=origin/<master_branch> feature/<your_current_branch>

2) git pull

Answer 6

This happens due to current branch has no tracking on the branch on the remote. so you can do it with 2 ways.

1. Pull with specific branch name

git pull origin master

2. Or you can specific branch to track to the local branch.

git branch --set-upstream-to=origin/